Happy New Year

After I glazed the clown,I added some particles and fired the piece again,so they are glued to the piece.The particles are made by sliptrailing clay on a piece of plaster.A Happy and creative New Year!
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Help,My Tennis Ball is Missing

Nearby my home is a tennisclub so there always plenty of balls.I can use the balls ,with some glaze I glued them to my tiles.No just joking ,I make the balls by myself;trailing slip on a piece of plaster.
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White Christmas

It is very unusual to get a white christmas in Holland, but this year every thing in front of my home is white.

I ám working at tiles with a lot of particles(see the clown picture).First I make the particles on a piece of plaster(painting with clayslip or with the slipapplicator) and then I transport the particles to an already fired tile.With some glaze the particle is glued to the tile and fired again.

A white and merry Christmas!

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A Christmas Carol

My nickname my wife gave me is Scrooge.I suppose she did that because I ám not very generous.I plan to give her this year a selfmade tile called 'December City'(with a shopping centre in Christmas ambiance pictured).Hope she likes the textures.
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Sea Tile

Detail of a fish,turtle,and seahorse tile.
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A Saving Energy Tip

The world leaders are parking their limos and planes for the climate top in Copenhagen. I felt myself also a bit guilty about the fact I had to fire my climate piece(the melting of Antartica) three times which costed also energy.Otherwise with a mural, parts can be fired a few times more for extra colors, effects,etc.and other parts not;this saves energy.
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Christmas

We invited this family for christmas dinner.

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Gift Season

There was a peak the past week in selling,I also sold some elephant and fish minimurals.Now I have to replace the minimurals in my assortiment:here is one in progress.
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Two Horses

A set of 2 horses ready.The texture is somewhat 'orbiting' the piece.Maybe doing Zodiac signs is an idea.
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The Happy Family

Having children, a dog and a car is often the stereotype of the happy family. I want to work this out in a ceramic collage.Here a study;the idea is to combine larger greenware tile work ,with small glazed or biscuit ware.

Of course there would occur the technical problem about the different shrinking.It is a challenge to find a solution.
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Underwater Creature

A fish like animal in progress.

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Black Engobe

It is always a surprise (good or bad) to open the kiln after firing experiments.Here an experiment with a black engobe and white particles.
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Tile Work

Another car model,the car has become a sort of canvas.

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Wet in Wet

I try to combine sculpting and painting techniques.A sculpting technique which I like to investigate further for the next year is sculpting in a wet surface (in a gel for example).Here an experiment;the upper image is a (hi-res)detail of the under image.

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Underglaze

Two tiles in progress;underglazed in biscuit stage and ready for a transparent glaze coat and a second firing.
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Party Animals

Fresh color painting,the turtle is ready to go to the disco.The party animal has fluor colors which light up very cool under an UV light.
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Foam work

Last week I took a break from pottery and I did some foam cutting.It is fun to work with the hot wire, and a mold from plaster or latex can be made ,so the piece can realized later also in clay.

Here a harbour scene in progress.The piece became a bit 'muddy' and I will try to change it somewhat.
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Angel on a Clould

Three pieces combined to one painting with the photoprogram.
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Keep the Toilet Clean

One of my tiles that is in demand is the tile for the toilet;"Hou het net op toilet" it means in English"Do not piss on this floor"
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Update 2

The piece after adding some shadows ,highlights,and minor changes.

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Update

Here the piece in a further stage.Maybe I work out some details,change thinks a bit,overwork it(lol), or maybe I consider it as finished.
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Fractal/Crystal Art

The Netherlands is a land full of windmills.So they are often an inspiration for tiles and paintings.Now I try to look at it from the corner of fractal art.Here a piece in progress.
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Something Negative about my Work I Have to Tell

I ám working at some tiles with a negative relief.The pieces are baked for the first time and I like to add in the next firings texture and extra colors.
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The Butterfly

The butterfly is an older tile made a few years ago ;it is fired several times and the colors and reliefpaste is applied in layers and seperate firings.

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Using a Dremel

Delft Blue is one of my favourite colors,the one I have is very rich of pigment but it is hard to see before firing and I use easy to much.So I had to use a dremel to 'sand' a lot of color and unwanted textures away afterwards.

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The Detail

Pen and ceramic inkt are my favorites when drawing lines.Sometimes lines and contrast can really change a piece.A few pictures to make this clear.Also a closeup of the texture.

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Preview with the Computer

After the tile was baked,I did a sketch with the photoprogram;.Some lines and colors change the piece.
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The Secondhands Car

From an old lady,good as new.
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Jonah and the Whale

"When you are me missing,I ám fishing"Jonah said.

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More Eggs

Another miniature;eggs and seahorses.
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What should we eat today?

The inside of an egg can hold images.In this case I put small turtles in the egg.It is miniature ,and I use a looking glass and a fine needle to sculpt the small creatures.
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Glass and Ceramic

A crazy scientist is doing an experiment in a petri dish with some growing ceramic cells.Then a techno_phant occurs.
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Busy

Some more study tiles.Maybe they are a bit busy but there is a lot into to discover.

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An interesting Tile Experiment

I poured some casting clay in a mold, and in the wet clay I lay the leatherhard image of a boat(and a smoke trail).On the wet clay surrounding the boat I put some ceramic glaze glue.Then I added with the slipapplicator liquid clay to the surface;And very strange textures appeared which looks a bit like crystals.

Ok I have to work this further out but I ám really amazed by the result.
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Underwater traffic(2)

Here a seahorse carriage with texture.I 'plugged' the piece in my latest digital work which is called 'underwater traffic'.

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Light and Dark

My pieces came out a little bleach after firing.To accent the textures and to provide more contrast I decide to do an extra wash with dark ceramic inkt.Here they are with the inkt but I have to fire the pieces again.
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